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od tlw trcsdoiduidisndadasirnsd totus frvg™. 4 [© . IN Ae A Reader's Viewpoint Fears return of Penitentiary controversy --Dear Sir: In regard to the heading (Sees no Major issues - Port Perry Star October 14), it should be pointed out that one issue, now dormant, could in all probability blos- som forth into full-fledged prominence in the very near future. ' The Penitentiary Review Committee of Uxbridge have released a letter to the public that was written by George Speal, Mayor of the City of Kingston. He has advised the Ux- bridge council to reconsider it's approval to build a federal penitentiary recep- tion centre in the Township, as the social costs of having a reception centre are just too high. These costs were clarified when he stated that a lot of drugs, contraband, alchohol etc. move in and out of these pl , therefore creating an influx of people moving into the area to supply the inmates. He mentioned that once a peni- tentiary is built there will probably be expansion, or more built in the area. One other factor mentioned was that police overtime costs are heavy, when trouble occurs. ~ Mayor Carl Puterbough of Uxbridge said that plans to build the reception centre in Uxbridge are as good as dead. A referendum will be held in conjunction with the Municipal Election, and one survey already conducted in the township showed 1341 out of a total of 1770 ballots were against the centre. Innisfil Township Council near 'Barrie, due to public pressure, reversed it's former decision that allowed building a medium-security prison. As a result Mr. Don Clark, Deputy Regional Director of Canadian Peni- tentiary Services said, they* Suggests referendum in possible Dear Sir: ..At its meeting on Thursday October 21, the Uxbridge Township Council voted to hold a referendum on the proposed Federal Peniten- tiary Reception Centre. The Mayor of Uxbridge Town- ship has been quoted in the Toronto Star as saying that plans for such a centre are " "'as good as dead". Since the proposal to place such a centre in Scugog had been turned down and then reopened for further study in July 1975, it seems likely that Scugog Township may again have to face this very contro- versial issue. "Pen"issue When discussions were being held on a Scugog Peni- tentiary Reception Centre, the representatives of the Federal Government said that the institution would not be built here against the wishes of the people. At that time the group opposing the institution asked that council Hold a referendum but it was felt by council that such a course would be too costly and time consuming as there was a deadline to be con- sidered. It appears now that it would be quite possible for Scugog Council to truly have been doing some soul searching to get commun- itites to accept new facilities, as they want to build four other penitentiaries in add- ition to the reception centre, in- Southern Ontario. In deciding to rescind its former motion, which turned down the Penitentiary, the Scugog Council voted 3 to 2 on July 21, 1975, that the issue in question receive further study and the public be properly informed of the issues involved. Hence it appears very real, that this subject will be a major topic of discussion once again. qieeord Redman FAHEY EL TERA PARSON Nal Ste! S230 | * ay SITE SH LAS YR R TH I ee PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1976 -- § Jacklighters no hunters WM JA EAT TRAN BT LENS BAY We. EW AP VIX odr Ri: Ve, RAY eA v 307, fi v, SEED " ASL Ne PA wha Salted v ' 4 just miserable thieves Dear Sir: ,~Lhave just finished read: ing your article titled *'Jack- lighters" kill two horses etc. in the October 20 edition of your paper. In the second paragraph you explain that '"jacklighters" are hunters that use bright lights to blind deer and moose at night so they can kill them. I feel that your reference to these weak minded degenerates as hunters is a real slap in my face. I am a hunter, along with numerous others in this township, and we do not advocate such disregard for the law or such unsports- manlike conduct. To refer to these people as hunters is slandering every honest sportsman in this country. Energy Conservation Week Dear Editor: ..This year, the people of Ontario will spend an esti- mated $7.5 billion on all forms of energy. In short, we've been spending about $900 annually for every man, woman and child in the Province on energy. Up to 20 per cent of that could be saved through properly maintained vehicles, better consumption practices and properly insulated homes. Through conservation we could reduce the rate of "growth of overall energy costs dramatically. The Ontario Government has proclaimed the first week of November Energy Conservation Week in order toincrease public awareness of the need to conserve continued on page 18 A jacklighter is a thief. He steals game _that_ true... hunters spend much time and money to propagate "through the Ministry of Natural Resources. A jack- lighter buys no licence to hunt deer, or any other game. A hunter spends many dollars each year' through licences, taxes, and donations for habitat improvement, to open land, to save marshes and. for wildlife management. A jacklighter couldn't care less. These jacklighters should be reported by any citizen who sees them in the act. Report them to your nearest Natural Resources office or Police Department. These officers will do everything in their power to apprehend these criminals. Please publish this letter so that the non-hunting public can see that "jack- lighters' are not hunters but thieves who steal from us all. Thank you, John Newman A Local Hunter. EDITOR'S NOTE: You make a good point, John. An apology is certain- ly deserved. driving habits, more careful continued on page 18 Fall notes oY RR A few fall notes of superlative unimpor- tance. My elder grandson, Pokey, is now, at two and a half years, in the pre-Kindergar- ten Class at the day-care centre he attends. He gets very annoyed when someone, needling, says: "Oh, you're in the Senior Toddlers' class now." With a curl of the lip, he retorts vehement- ly, "No! I in pre-Kindergarten." Even at that age, there's an immense concern with status. To the Senior Toddlers, the Junior Toddlers are just punks. To the pre-Kinder- garteners, the Senior Toddlers are practic- ally babies. You remember how it was? If you were in Grade 9 at school, it was the supreme insult if someone asked if you were in Grade 8, back with all those little kids: It was the same in the service. When you joined, you were a raw, ignorant rookie. In six months, you were looking with tolerant scorn at the new recruits. When you finally got your wings, you looked down from Olympus at those mere children who were starting their training. Then you went overseas, and were sud- denly a raw, ignorant rookie again. After operational training, which ensured that you were a dashing fighter pilot, you were posted to a squadron, and learned to your dismay that you were just a "sprog", the term for a raw, ignorant rookie. Same thing as a prisoner of war. You'd 50 YEARS AGO Thurs. October 26, 1927 Four officials of the Ontario School Trustees and Ratepayers Associ- ation made a tour of Eastern Ontario. The following are those who took the trip, Mr. W. M. Morris, Secretary-Trea- surer, Toronto; Mr. D. B. McPherson, President, Port Stanley; Samuel Farmer, Vice President, Port Perry; and Mr. G. R. McWhirten, President of the Rural Section. Cole- beck, The 850 mile trip included visits to Bow- manville School for unad- justed boys, Colborne School, Wellington Con- solidated School and Kingston. Mrs. Sybilla Spahrs Tonsilitis treats bronchi- tis, catarrh, cough, quinsy, whooping cough, sore throat and tonsil ills successfully. Sold by A. J. Davis, Port Perry. vote tion Ltd. Remember When..? 25 YEARS AGO Thurs. October 25, 1951 Port Perry will be "dry" for another three years. 60 per cent of the needed for a Brewers Warehouse to be opened here was not achieved. The votes for being 511 and 485 against (51.3 per cent): Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Payne of Buffalo visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson over the week- end and also attended the Gray-Mark wedding. Miss Ada Stephenson, Utica, picked a bowl of raspberries last week. The berries are from an everlasting variety. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs. October 26, 1961 Making way for more parking in the down town area, the house on the Hall Estate was demol- ished by Tripp-Construc- Located at the rear of Brock's Depart- ment Store, it will provide off-the-street parking for Brock's customers. Mr. and Mrs. E. Mc- Crea, Prince Albert, have returned from a two-week holiday with their daughter Hazel, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smylie, and son, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McCrea and family, Georgetown. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs. October 27, 1966 James Purvis of Port Perry was recently honoured on the occasion of 50 years membership in the Masonic Lodge. F. T. Cameron of Wynyard, Sask., presented Mr. Purvis with his certifi- cate. Sharon Baird, Port Perry, was presented with her Gold Cord in the United Church of Port " Perry on Sunday evening at an impressive cere- mony conducted by Rev. Alec Rice. 4 just been through a fairly traumatic exper- ience, and a very dramatic one, being shot down, captured, pérhaps being beaten up. You got to a prison camp, and were looked at with the utmost contempt by oldtimers (of perhaps 23) who had been shot down in such exotic places as Crete or Yugo-Slavia or Norway, and had been "in the bag' for three or four years. You felt like a five-year- old on his first day at school. Back to Poke. At day-care, they gave his a psychological label that mildly amused his mother, infuriated his gran, and delighted his grandfather. It was "Sneaky Aggres- sive'. It doesn't sound too nice, but he's tiny for his age, and has to look after himself somehow. What it means, I gather, is that when some bigger kid has pushed you around, you wait until he's not looking, then sneak -up--and bite him on the ear, or anything else that's handy. Well, the postal workers are at it again. After one of the most futile strikes ever seen in Canada, they settled, a year ago, for a 29 per cent package, far above the maximum allowed by the AIB. Others, teachers, mill workers, were rolled back, while the uncivil servants of our postal system kept their loot. As I write, they are holding rotating (and illegal) walkouts, cocking a snook at govern- ment injunctions, and acting like the spoiled children of rich parents. Maybe they've been coddled too long. I'm not yet at the point where I would single out every tenth man or woman in the postal department and shoot the person. But I'm getting there. If Trudeau were smart, he'd call back Bryce Mackasey, eat humble pie, and kill two birds with one stone. I am ambiguous toward the postal people, which takes some of the sting out of my attack. Most of those in small towns are friends and sometimes neighbours of the people they serve. They're friendly, reason- ably courteous and as efficient as the system, one of the most inefficient in the country, will let them be. It's in the bigger towns and cities, where there is no personal contact between servers and served, that the militancy among postal workers is fostered. The workers feel themselves mere cogs in a big machine, not individuals. The public doesn't give a damn about them, as long as it gets its mail on time. Therein lies revolution, and always has. But I'm getting a little ticked off with labor in general in this country, along with a hell of a lot of other people who once supported it. We have one of the rottenest histories of strikes in the world, over the last few years. Even the British working man, for many years a real bearcat when it came to unions and strikes, has realized there is a point of no return, and is co-operating with govern- ment in an attempt to slow inflation in the U.K. by limiting demands for pay boosts. Not so Canadian labor. It's "Gimme! Gimmie! Gimme!" Maybe I'm old-fashion- ed, but I think there's something wrong with the values of a country in which a plumber makes more than a public health nurse, a meat-cutter makes more than a minister. In fact, I'm so fed up with labor that if my own union, the teachers' federation, asked me to go on stike over some real or fancied _ grievance, my first reaction would be: "Drop Dead". Where there is injustice, it must be rectified. But where there is only greed, getting as much as you can, and giving as little as possible, I've had enough. And that applies to sex and sympathy, as well as labor. Last item in these futile fall notes. For two weeks I've been wearing a magnetic brace- let which is supposed to relieve my arthritis. I'd have been just as far ahead to stick an onion in my ear, and go out and swing, by the tail, a dead cat at the moon, like Huck Finn. A colleague suggest this. He's right. 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